Someone Was Murdered on My Backpacking Trip
The Assassination of a Soul
4 min readJan 2, 2021
I was in my early twenties and the two things I remember most, other than the actual event, was the uncontrollable shivering and the pack of cigarettes my brother and I nervously chain-smoked trying to calm down.
We were in Albania, We had only arrived that morning at 5:30, and we had only arrived at that location…